Frank Obadiah BRIGGS

(1851-1913)

Senate Years of Service:

1907-1913

Party:

Republican

BRIGGS, Frank Obadiah,
(son of James Frankland Briggs), a Senator from New Jersey; born in
Concord, N.H., August 12, 1851; attended the public schools,
Francestown (N.H.) Academy, and Phillips Academy, Exeter, N.H.;
graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in
1872; served in the Second Regiment, United States Infantry, as
second lieutenant until 1877, when he resigned from the Army; moved
to Trenton, N.J., in 1877 and engaged in the manufacture of wire
and wire products; member of the Trenton School Board 1884-1892;
mayor of Trenton 1899-1902; member of the State board of education
1901-1902; State treasurer 1902-1907; chairman of the Republican
State committee 1904-1911; elected as a Republican to the United
States Senate and served from March 4, 1907, to March 3, 1913;
unsuccessful candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee on
Geological Survey (Sixty-first Congress), Committee to Audit and
Control the Contingent Expense (Sixty-second Congress); resumed his
former business pursuits in Trenton, N.J., where he died May 8,
1913; interment in Riverview Cemetery.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present